02-08-2016, 05:21 PM
2. Sometimes the people you interact with in your day-to-day life in the physical, hey I'm right here sense just aren't as good as the people you can speak with over the internet. Like, for instance, someone lives in hicksville countrytown and wants to talk about video games or something, but the established social group ( clique, club, society ) for that is somehow really exclusive and won't let you into that sacred circle because you've known each other since kindergarten. It's waaay easier to join a community over the internet because, while you might be really attached to it, it won't haunt you from school to home life unless you let it. Plus, you can talk about the things you like with a nearly 100% guarantee that someone will get it.
If you were talking about texting or something and not just internet use in general, then I can't be of much use there. I rarely keep up with text conversations and would only initiate a conversation out of necessity. While human interaction is required for things like work, athletics, some extracurricular activities and education, which are all generally essential to be a part of the human community if you pick and choose a couple, online communities are... Iunno, less complicated human interaction? And that's even ignoring the element of communicating with distant loved ones. Being physically there isn't required to be a friend.
For texting specifically, though.... it's probably how impersonal it is that holds the real appeal; it's really no more than an illusion, though, because what you say can and will have consequences. As a person who gets pretty nervous when in the company of many people at once, I guess it seems less threatening. It's probably why people frequently break off relationships through texts, to avoid confrontation and (hypothetically) bodily harm.
If you were talking about texting or something and not just internet use in general, then I can't be of much use there. I rarely keep up with text conversations and would only initiate a conversation out of necessity. While human interaction is required for things like work, athletics, some extracurricular activities and education, which are all generally essential to be a part of the human community if you pick and choose a couple, online communities are... Iunno, less complicated human interaction? And that's even ignoring the element of communicating with distant loved ones. Being physically there isn't required to be a friend.
For texting specifically, though.... it's probably how impersonal it is that holds the real appeal; it's really no more than an illusion, though, because what you say can and will have consequences. As a person who gets pretty nervous when in the company of many people at once, I guess it seems less threatening. It's probably why people frequently break off relationships through texts, to avoid confrontation and (hypothetically) bodily harm.
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